Yohanes 6:4

6:4 (Now the Jewish feast of the Passover ¹  was near.) ² 

Yohanes 10:23

10:23 It was winter, ³  and Jesus was walking in the temple area ⁴  in Solomon’s Portico. ⁵ 

¹ sn Passover. According to John’s sequence of material, considerable time has elapsed since the feast of 5:1. If the feast in 5:1 was Pentecost of a.d. 31, then this feast would be the Passover of a.d. 32, just one year before Jesus’ crucifixion.

² sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

³ sn It was winter. The feast began on 25 Kislev, in November-December of the modern Gregorian calendar.

⁴ tn Grk “in the temple.”

⁵ tn Or “portico,” “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.”

sn Solomon’s Portico was a covered walkway formed by rows of columns supporting a roof and open on the inner side facing the center of the temple complex.